简介：The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature.　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)

简介：该片以记忆中的西塘河为背景，讲述西塘河边生活着的人们的翻天覆地的生活变化。电影的主线是青年企业家叶风带着父亲临终嘱托和一张老照片回到西塘，寻找父亲昔日的恋人，在寻找过程中，遇到了当地船娘荷花。男主角在帮父亲寻找昔日恋人的同时，也渐渐与荷花发生了情感纠葛，以及与此同时带出的跟荷花有关的一些人和事。通过电影的手法和艺术的加工来展示古镇西塘30年来的发展变化。